A developer diary for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is below, and features Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi and concept lead, Keiji Inafune, discussing development of the game. The game is in the works between three developmental entities: Comcept, Spark Unlimited, and Team Ninja. In the video, Inafune and Hayashi talk about many things, along with […]

Dead or Alive 5 Plus has been announced by Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi via IGN Pro League. It will arrive on Vita in early 2013, and new features via a patch will also arrive for the core game next year. More details on DoA Plus will be announced at a later date. Watch the […]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus will release on Vita next year according to Team Ninja. The news was announced by the developer at TGS 2012 this morning by studio head Yosuke Hayashi. Further details weren’t provided on the title, other than an early 2013 release. Thanks, Siliconera.

Dear or Alive 5 director Yosuke Hayashi has stated that Team Ninja’s approach to making the series’ leading ladies as attractive as possible stems from Japanese culture, and that the studio will never change its approach to the game’s sexual overtones.

A developer diary for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is below, and features Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi and concept lead, Keiji Inafune, discussing development of the game. The game is in the works between three developmental entities: Comcept, Spark Unlimited, and Team Ninja. In the video, Inafune and Hayashi talk about many things, along with […]

Dead or Alive 5 Plus has been announced by Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi via IGN Pro League. It will arrive on Vita in early 2013, and new features via a patch will also arrive for the core game next year. More details on DoA Plus will be announced at a later date. Watch the […]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus will release on Vita next year according to Team Ninja. The news was announced by the developer at TGS 2012 this morning by studio head Yosuke Hayashi. Further details weren’t provided on the title, other than an early 2013 release. Thanks, Siliconera.

Dear or Alive 5 director Yosuke Hayashi has stated that Team Ninja’s approach to making the series’ leading ladies as attractive as possible stems from Japanese culture, and that the studio will never change its approach to the game’s sexual overtones.

Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi has compared Ninja Gaiden III to “a Japanese hamburger for the West,” and the food analogies didn’t end there: Hayashi said when it comes to game, players want really good Japanese food.

After previously stating he wasn’t interested in a DoA vs Tekken style hybrid, Team Ninja studio head Yosuke Hayashi seems to have had a change of heart – well, as least with something other than Tekken.

“Nintendo asked us what we would want from the hardware. And when we gave them our feedback, we could see that they really listened and made ​​changes. The hardware is currently changing constantly.” – Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi, speaking to German website Gamefront.de (via GoNintendo). Team Ninja has previously said it was pushing Wii […]

“Itagaki might have left, but the hatred for Tekken is still around in the team [laughter]. So when we see Street Fighter X Tekken and those kinds of games… We’re coming out with Dead or Alive. We don’t need to rely on anything else to present Dead or Alive as a strong fighting game in […]

“With developers taking stuff that they normally would have put on the disc and selling that for DLC later, we think that lowers the value of the actual disc, the players that are going to buy that disc. We don’t think that’s a good way to do things. But as for using DLC as a […]

Ninja Gaiden 3 will launch on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in March, Team Ninja lead Yosuke Hayashi told journalists including Joystiq yesterday. The studio has since followed up with confirmation on Twitter. The latest entry in the famously difficult hack-and-slash series will also appear on Wii U when the system launches next year, and […]